BBGMBC Discussion Question #3 for Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel

Author: Published: June 6, 2012 1 comment
The Beyond Busy Global Book Club discusses this book from June 4th – June 10th 2012, Join the discussion any time!
Today, June 6th , we continue the discussion questions for the Beyond Busy Global Monthly Book Club. We just finished reading Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama and now we will spend seven days discussing the book.
Anyone who has read the book can participate by commenting. You can also join our public BBGMBC Facebook group, if you would like to join us in reading one excellent quality book per month and then discussing it here.

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama is written and illustrated by Alison Bechdel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012.

Since we’ve just read two other memoirs, it seems a shame to miss the opportunity to compare them. What do you say?

In what way was Are You My Mother? like Wild by Cheryl Strayed?

In what way was Are You My Mother? like Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott?

Wild was about a journey from lost to found. What about this book? Was it about a journey?

Some Assmbley Required was a “journal” of a grandmother’s first grandchild (her son’s first son). Was Are You My Mother? a journal of types? In what ways was it a journal?

Journey, journal…hmmm. What do you think?

What other comparisons can you make between the three books?

You can respond to any or all of these questions, as you like. Have fun!

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